Happy Hardcore was a big part of my introduction into techno. grew out of it by the time i was over 18 and able to to proper clubs but there's something about the fun energy of Ultrasonic which i still enjoy every now and then
hot take: if these guys hit their stride in the late rather than mid 90s they would have been big time superstars. when stadium house became a thing in the late 90s a bunch of those artists had nothing on Ultrasonic.
then imagine if KLF were a thing in the late 90s. holy shit
A slick, arresting slate of ambient-leaning electro-techno with a strong Detroit feel. Again split between the group's many ongoing projects, the tracks vary from four-on-the-floor club movers to after-hours chill-bound breakbeat tracks and funky, almost jazz-oriented electro.
will downtempo ever be cool again? I love it so much
It's comforting to think that somewhere unfathomably far away incomprehensible beings are possibly having some kind of subjective experience of a world that possibly observes basically the same laws as our own
This blew my socks off when i first heard it. don't think he's done anything as good since other than the first Cyclo album. Not really a fan of any of the post 90s raster noton releases either. Headphonics on here is particularly brilliant
there's some hits on some of the later Rastor-Noton. Ikeda, Bretschnieder, and some of the Byotone are pretty solid. the Alva Noto releases are good, but pretty one trick. ANBB and Clyclo. stuff are my favorites.
to be honest i think i just burnt out the R-N sound a bit early. I never got into Alva Noto apart from some of his collabs. Never got the appeal of xerrox at all. i just don't think his sound design works for me. give me mika/ryoji any day
to me it felt like Ryoji Ikeda's first 3 albums and pansonic were able to nail the sound perfectly then everyone who came later were just never all that good at it. they'd add a few other ideas which is all nice and good but their use of sine/glitch was always inferior.
I often forget about this album for some reason but it's so fucking good. love that it's this wacky electro prog rock concept album with a narrator and everything. never heard anything like it since.
if you haven't heard it before you're in for a treat... just make sure your first listen is not just a skim through or something you have going in the background. you really gotta take in the narration for it to click.
i've listened to some of the other uploads in here and a lot of them have been so good but i've also been dusting off my old CDs and going through those to see what's held up and what hasn't. pretty fun experience
Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia - Ov Biospheres And Sacred Grooves: A Document Ov New Edge Folk Classics (1992)
Just as lighthearted ambient house began to hit the mainstream in the early '90s, Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia foreshadowed a move to sinister downtempo music, more influenced by Coil and Psychic TV than the Orb. The Dutch group's shadowy nature and lack of connection to the close-knit dance community mystified some (their live shows were often performed behind large screens), but the band's sound -- organic tribal-trance with an understated use of samples -- became quite influential, as many groups mirrored the move to darker rhythms later in the decade. - Allmusick
mego wrote:to be honest i think i just burnt out the R-N sound a bit early. I never got into Alva Noto apart from some of his collabs. Never got the appeal of xerrox at all. i just don't think his sound design works for me. give me mika/ryoji any day
to me it felt like Ryoji Ikeda's first 3 albums and pansonic were able to nail the sound perfectly then everyone who came later were just never all that good at it. they'd add a few other ideas which is all nice and good but their use of sine/glitch was always inferior.
yeah, i pretty much agree with all this and find r-n pretty disappointing after the very beginning. what do you think of snd/mark fell? not crazy about the later snd releases but big fan on the 98-99 stuff. i saw him live recently and it was quite
mego wrote: this Noto/Mika collab https://www.discogs.com/%C3%98-Noto-Woh ... ease/45669 totally blew me away in 2001 then everything else after that was a letdown.
would appreciate an up of this if anyone can? never came across it before.
huge snd/mark fell fan here. going to see him next month.